118 Kenan Street

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HOUSE
1932-1948
NR nomination: One-story, frame, side-gabled Tudoresque house with cross-gable and exterior end-chimney. Similar to 122 and 114.

In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

2015 Survey Update: This one-story, side-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting, front-gabled wing on the left (south) end of the façade. The house has aluminum siding, eight-over-eight wood-sash windows on the façade with a six-over-six windows on the side elevations, including a single window in the right (north) gable, paired windows flanked by lower single windows in the left gable, and four-over-four windows flanking a stone chimney on the right elevation. The entrance, a batten door with two lights and an arched transom, is located on the right end of the projecting front gable, under a catslide roof. The door was originally located within a recessed entrance, but the entrance has been enclosed and the door moved to the façade. An uncovered concrete and stone terrace extends the full width of the façade. There is a one-story, shed-roofed wing that extends nearly the full width of the rear (west) elevation.

GARAGE
1932-1949
One-story front-gabled frame garage with German-profile weatherboards and paired batten doors on the east elevation. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

SOURCES: Kaye Graybeal, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: West Chapel Hill Historic District, Orange County OR1439 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 1998); Heather Slane and Cheri Szcodronski, 2015 Survey Update (NCSHPO HPOWEB 2.0, accessed 10 Jan. 2020); courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.